Upcoming Playshops — FEBRUARY 8 — Seattle
You have enough work in your life already. Let's play.
Embrace the Music / Embrace Each Other
If so, then please join me for these all-skill-levels-welcome playshops!
We will listen deeply to some classic tangos, exploring their structures. We will play with movement and stillness, balance, dynamic body tone, breath, and levels, as musical communication tools. We'll investigate the musical choices we make, experiment with sharing our musicality with one another, and most of all, have fun.
Tango is a hug that we dance. Those who would like to enjoy hugging and being hugged more consciously, more communicatively, and more deliciously, will spend this hour compassionately investigating how presence with our bodies and with our psyches can help us enjoy the embraces of our dreams.
Let's embrace the day...together!
Please wear comfortable play-clothes and socks (or bare feet). Leave your fancy tango clothes and shoes at home.
"You teach what tango is really about." — Daniel
Tango Therapy
Love your dance. Love your life.
What's going on in your dance is what's going on in your life.
Do you want to claim your creative voice? Do you want to enjoy meaningful partnerships on your own terms? Do you want to embrace yourself and others with compassion, intimacy, and understanding?
I help clients embrace their dances with curiosity and compassion. I hold a safe space for you to connect with your journey, your body, and your artistic voice. Because we learn best when we play, when we explore, and when we trust ourselves as the authority on what's right for us.
I emphasize active listening, and developing compassionate, clear, and trustworthy communication between partners.
I offer tango therapy, for individuals and couples, online and in person. It's a whole-intelligence way of learning about our relationships with ourselves and with others, becoming mindful of our patterns, and exploring the factors at play in all relationships. Trust, hope, fear, power, faith, curiosity, control, loss, gain, compassion, joy, vulnerability, social mores, old family stories, communication, need, desire, light and shadow...everything that defines us and everything that defines our relationships shows up when we dance. Stories that words can't reach transform when we explore them with dance.Are you ready to transform your life with tango therapy?
I am a psychotherapist (CA AMFT#146160, CA APCC #16298) and a tango teacher. California-based clients seeking ongoing tango therapy may work with me via the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy. Clients in all locations seeking short-term counseling may work with me privately.
If you are curious and would like to discuss how tango therapy can transform your life, please message me to schedule a free ten-minute phone call today!Some places I have taught include: Aosta, Berlin, Catania, Chicago, Lausanne, London, Los Angeles, Madison, New Orleans, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle, and Tarbes.
Primary tango teachers include: Sebastian Arce, Jorge Torres, Virginia Pandolfi, Guillermo García, Samantha Dispari, Nikita Gerdt, Albano Goldenberg, and Ariadna Naveira.
My practice is informed by many cross-disciplinary in-depth practices, including but not limited to: the Alexander Technique, ballet, Feldenkrais, folk dance, Hakomi, martial arts, modern dance, Gyrotonics, structural integration, swimming, yoga, and Zen.
Calendar
Events and opportunities for in-person mentoring. Please message me to schedule a session.
December
Seattle December 13 — Dance Underground — Dj
December 14 — La Garúa — Dj
Bellingham WA December 18 — Milonga Leo — Dj
Seattle December 19 — OmCulture — Dj
December 21 — Embrace the Music / Embrace Each Other — Teacher
San Francisco December 22 - 26 — Tango therapy
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January
Seattle January 1 — New Year's Day Milonga — Dj
Los Angeles January 9 — 12
Eugene OR January 16 — Dj
January 18 — Embrace Each Other — Teacher
San Francisco January 22 - 26 — Tango therapy
Vancouver BC January 27 — 28
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San Diego February 1 — Sunset Práctica — Dj
February 2 — Milonga Recuerdo — Dj and teacher
Seattle February 6 — Tangoesque Alt / Afterglow — Dj
February 8 — Embrace the Music / Embrace Each Other — Teacher
Portland OR February 11 — 16
San Francisco February 23 — 25 Tango therapy
Seattle
February 22 — La Garúa — Teacher
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March
Port Townsend WA March 1 — Port Townsend Milonguita — Dj
Seattle March 14 — Dance Underground — Dj
Olympia WA March 19 — Práctica supervisor and Dj
San Francisco March 20 - 23 — Tango Therapy
Seattle March 27 — Catch Me if You Can — Dj
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April
Olympia WA April 11 — Milonga — Dj
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May
Seattle May 15 — Om — Teacher & Dj
May 31 — Madera Verde — Dj
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June
Seattle June 22 — Tango at the Harbor — Dj
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August
Seattle August 7 — Om - Dj
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September
Bellingham WA September 17 — Milonga Leo — Dj
DJ
Dancers trust Jordana’s music. They know that with her as DJ, they can relax and fully commit to enjoying themselves. Each tanda invites a danceable story of connection between partners. The arc of every milonga feels solid, emotionally logical, and timely. And dancers know that they can securely abandon themselves to the delight of the moment, with Jordana’s music to propose the way. This is her greatest gift, and Jordana honors the trust of her dancers with music that touches the soul.
Jordana has been dj’ing and teaching for ten years, in Europe and the United States. She is also a tango therapist, helping people better enjoy their dances, their relationships, and their lives. She is available for dj'ing, teaching, and tango therapy throughout Northern America and online.
Cities I've taught / dj'd in: Berlin, Chicago, London, Madison, Marin, New Orleans, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Tarbes, Valle d'Aosta, and more.
